Case Study-6 The Prison Flashcards
Background
What was the background of this study?
Background was that it was all focused on the individual (dispositional) VERSUS situational variable.
Back ground :
What is dispositional?
What is situational?
Dispositional the feature or characteristic located in an individual
Situational- behavior caused due to the feature or characteristic of a situation.
Aim
What was the aim?
Investigate whether the behavior of non prisoners in a stimulated prison environment is affected by their disposition than the situation they are in.
Method: setting
What was design of the setting?
Where
Corredor
Done in a basement corredor- Stanford University
Corredor was known as the yard
Method: setting
Describe the cells?
What did they have ?
Three small cells
6x9 feet
Had a cot, one for each prisoner. Three prisioneira in one cell.
Method setting
Describe the hole?
Hole was a solitary confinement:
- was a unit room
- 2x2x7 feet
- small broom cupboard
Method setting
What were the other rooms for?
For other guards- bedroom for super intendente and Watson
Interviewing room
Room for recording equipment and observers
Method setting
What else? (4)
- no windows
- no clocks
- no constancy with outside world
- was an entrance door
Method
WHAT was the design of the prison?
All prionsers had to stay in there cells 24 hours
Guards worked 8 hours a day and had shift.
Method
Designs of guards? What did they wear? (5)
What effect did this have?
Khaki shirt Khaki trousers Reflecting sunglasses Wooden baton Whistle.
Adapt role fully
Goes beyond their role
Guards even asked to do more shift as they liked to feel in control
Method
Design of prisioners (6)
Muslim smock Identification number No underclothes Light chain on their ankle Rubber sandals Nylon stocking cap
Participants
How many participants were there? lol
24 and two stand by.
Participants
What did they do, to choose all applicants
They gave the psychological interviews and tests to eliminate any
psychological problems,
medical issues and
collect family back grounds.
Participants
How did they find this?
How were participants selected.
Through an advertisement on newspaper advert.
Self selected sampling
Participants
What did the contract include?
- enough clothing
- appropriate clothing
- medical care
- no psychical abuse
- 15$ a day
Participants
How were they deceived?
How were they informed
Didn’t know they were going to be arrested at home. And physical abuse
Little privacy as randomly assigned to guards or prisoners
Procedure for the prisoner.
- Collected on a Sunday morning, at their houses, and were arrested for armed robbery.
- Read their own legal rights, were hand cuffed and researched.
- Driven off to a real police station in a Californian police car
- Once arrived were
- stripped
- given identification number
- uniform
- in cell
Procedure for the guards.
- 11 guards met before, for a day of induction procedure.
- Were introduced to the research team. - Wadden and Zimbardo
- They were told that their goal was to create a prison environment that was reliable and ethical
- Main task ‘was to maintain a reasonable degree of order within the prison for its functioning.
- Somethings were not told as they wanted to see their attitudes.
Prison procedure
- 9 guards 9 prisoners
- Guards would bring prisoners out of cell for counts. - lined against wall and ID number was read.
- Prisoners were given rules and had to know them.
- If prisoner tried to act independent their punishment was push-ups.
Procedure
What did each prisoner have? (6)
3 meals a day
3 supervised toilet breaks
3 times a day were lined against wall
2 hours privilege
Two visiting prods
Work assignment
Results
In general what was found ?
(3)
- State of prisoners is due to the situation they are in rather than the disposition hence dispositional hypothesis was not agreed.
- Guards will adopt an authoritative role and internalize it.
- Prisoners will follow the role given and suffer.
Results
How did the results show pathology power ? (4)
- Guards liked to feel POWER
- Used psychological tactics
3 guards ripped prisoners naked
4 Called at any time of the day
Results
How did the results show pathological prisoner syndrome
- Prioners reacted emotionally, proof was with a psychometric rash.
- Received sense of helplessness and usefulness
- Lost identity
Results
Why did the study stop?
(2)
Guards:
- Guards were escalating the abuse of prionsers at night, when they thought no one was seeing them.
- Boredom also lead to this
Christina Maslack
- Was brought in to interview guards and prionsers.
- Period were she saw they walk away and saw the way they were being treated.
- Went into an emotional rage and told zimbardo for study to stop.
Evaluation
Strengths
Essay
Strength: